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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • Amateurs

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  • I've... done things you people wouldn't believe...

    Erections dribbling precum on the shoulder of the New Jersey Turnpike.

    I watched semen glitter in the dark in the LHC.

    All those... moments... will be lost in time, like jizz on the floor of a Kwik Trip bathroom.

    Time... to nut.

  • US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran

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  • but were they not making a comment on the overall situation and not this specific example?

    Headline reads (changed after OP posted): "targeting missile sites and boats"

    They write: "DID they strike boats and other Iranian sites? Maybe. Who's to say?"

    I appreciate that you're giving them an (extreme) benefit of the doubt, but they never so much as imply that, and they're clearly raising doubt about this specific example; even the comment below you is running another line of defense for this specific case – trying to subtly frame it as logical because I didn't link to the Iranian state media BBC News says reported the sound of explosions. (Of course if I had, or if I link to this article from the AP today, then it would be some other stupid bullshit, because the real problem that I can't fix is Lemmy's collective delusion that reading past the headline isn't a basic expectation when you write a comment like this.)

    Lemmy taken overall is persistently intellectually lazy and even more persistently in denial when called out. This is the most basic shit you'd expect of someone running to the comments and screeing about something that's effectively solved by just reading, and yet pointing out that their comment wouldn't exist if they'd just done 30 seconds of reading is still controversial.

  • US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran

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  • Iranian state media had earlier reported that local officials in Bandar Abbas were investigating after explosions were heard.

    Maybe you'd know if you read the article (read: whose headline) you're commentating about.

  • wat

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  • This explanation is the wrong intuition for why space can expand FtL. It's an understandable one to infer, but the balloon one further down is correct and the one most commonly used by cosmologists for a lay audience.

    Our current understanding of recessional velocity works by Hubble's law, and that linear equation imposes no such 2x cap.

  • Your vet won't tell you this, but if your dog is running a fever, apply some mustard.

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  • Chicagoan air strike is en route

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  • Shit.

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  • Freedom subject to the instance you are signed up to (and posting to)

    Referring to the underlying software, not to moderation. Which is sort of a corollary to federation, but not entirely when you look at something like Bluesky where you can federate but don't truly run your own "Bluesky". Sure there's implicit trust in what the instance is running since you aren't auditing it, but I'm willing to see shades of grey and that this is better in that regard than corporate social media.

    If you are looking for this in a community called “Lemmy Shitpost”

    Not really (although a number of people on Lemmy put in the effort to make clever, homebrewed shitposts, which is beside the point). Sometimes Lemmy Shitpost just has funny stuff that makes for a more well-rounded social media experience. I never said I'm only looking for thought-provoking interactions; intelligent company doesn't have to be self-serious. The whole reason I even made my original comment is that I'm persistently disappointed that I can't walk into a thread about an obvious fiction made as a joke and think that Lemmy collectively understands the difference. Something that is funny turns into a source of frustration when I consider user behavior I've seen on Lemmy before.

  • Reminds me of certain people and their flock

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  • Well I did read the Bible cover-to-cover years ago, but almost none of this was off the top of my head. I already knew of Brown–Driver–Briggs and the Klein Dictionary, but that's kind of abnormal, and you could find them on your own if you were totally new to this.

    This was pretty much all cursory research from trying to actually evaluate what they said with an open mind. The only thing I knew going into this is what the prefix 'phago-' means.

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  • but the people you’re speaking of (ones who don’t check the community name before taking this for granted) are probably not going to be reading these comments either

    Genuinely fair, well-considered point. I appreciate it and will consider it more heavily the next time I see something like this.

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    • I like the Reddit/threadiverse format.
    • I like the fact that it's free as in freedom.
    • I like federation.
    • I like that there are intelligent people; the collective is extremely frustrating and intellectually lazy, but there are actual thought-provoking interactions by people who put in actual effort.

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  • You’ll be tagged as the one who thought a shitpost was serious

    Please do tag me; tag me as the one who didn't think a shitpost was serious but that Lemmy users collectively cannot be trusted to tell the difference.

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  • Shit, no, I think you're right, actually: maybe Lemmy are worth taking seriously because I remember they were smart enough to correct your stupid, confidently incorrect ass the other day with "hurr durr Windows malware can't run through WINE".

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  • You know what, I'll just copy–paste this here, although I've never actually hoarded examples of all the times Lemmy was essentially as dumb as Reddit:

    Several weeks ago, there was this post in a news community to a BBC News article. It was a real article; no tricks, correct headline. But the link was a 404. When I found it, it was upvoted about 20–0. I downvoted it as obviously nonfunctional but also commented remarking that it’s a 404 and giving the OP the correct link. When I came back to that post a couple hours later hoping to upvote a fixed link, the link was unchanged, it was upvoted 50–1 (my downvote), and it had one comment (mine) upvoted 1–0. (Edit: I checked, to preemptively clarify, that this wasn’t a “me” problem.)

    Lemmy users collectively have the media literacy of a housefly.

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  • The people I party with aren't morons like the average Lemmy user.

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  • Lemmy will and does believe literally anything; I'm sorry that I take it within that context.

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  • And then everyone stood up and clapped.

    Guys, you can slap text over anyone's portrait and say they did literally anything; it doesn't make it true.

    Edit: Oh, Lemmy does not like being told that they can't be trusted to have basic media literacy.

  • Reminds me of certain people and their flock

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  • People should know that:

    • /u/givessomefucks is a persistent liar who rarely knows what they're talking about. They persistently grossly misinterpret excerpts from Wikipedia either because they don't care or because they literally can't read.
    • They're deliberately taking the Wikipedia article out of context hoping people won't read it if they say it authoritatively enough:
      • [edit: 'zll' since the original Hebrew is turbofucking the formatting on desktop] literally translates to excessive eating.
      • The sentence after states: "In Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34, it is φαγος (phagos)." (anyone who knows their roots knows what this one means)
    • The citation on that sentence is completely broken, meaning there's no chance they actually checked it.
    • There's zero chance they understand what Gesenius' work is; it does not at all indicate "it was wrongly translated as a cover-up but also somehow 19th-century theologian Gesenius was the only one to allegedly discover this even though it's also essentially gluttony in Greek and Hebrew."

    Edit: Here's what Brown–Driver–Briggs (based partly on Gesenius) says:

    transitive make light of = be lavish with, squander (compare II. zol), especially of gluttony [bş̂r′z] Proverbs 23:20 ([soovai yain]), absolute Proverbs 23:21; Deuteronomy 21:20 (both [soove]), Proverbs 28:7.

    The Klein Dictionary:

    to be mean, be vile, to be a glutton

    Deuteronomy 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21

    And wow, what a weird coincidence that Deuteronomy 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21 both have it used in conjunction with the word "drunkard", an obvious companion to eating too much.

  • Manga Artist Loses Entire Google Account After AI Flags His Own Artwork on Drive

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  • Did nobody else here reading this (assuming anyone else actually has or will) notice that the article is plainly written by an LLM – and the thumbnail generated too?

    It's a garbage content mill.

  • A post-billionaire society would be nice

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    I purchased alarm music for my phone for €0.50 today

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK some unconventional ways you can contribute to OpenStreetMap

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Hontius' pilot after fatally transmitting hantavirus to Jesús

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    Perule's Republic of China

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    YTP iteachvader; 0:30

    Robotnik Switches To Linux Mint

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL plants do not develop cancer

    www.nature.com /articles/nrc2942
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    xkcd's What If?; 2:59

    How many bananas would you need to power a house?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., behind infamous English dubs of shows such as One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon, traded on the New York Stock Exchange as 'KDE'

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/4Kids_Entertainment
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    PokkinVA; 4:03

    What if 4Kids dubbed Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder if there's a measurable difference in middle finger dexterity between societies that do and don't treat it as an insult

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What city do you move to for a chronic sore throat?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK about Firefox keywords if you use DuckDuckGo's bangs

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Wizards with Guns; 16:21

    This "wizard" thinks he ISN’T getting the death penalty.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I very slightly, meaninglessly outdid the Oxford English Dictionary today

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    David and his contraptions; 2:56

    Maple Leaf Rag on [a] homemade glockenbox

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK about the nonprofit Unchained at Last

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Technology Connections; 12:44

    The disappearing and underappreciated art of audible alerts

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK that a dirt-cheap pair of lab goggles can save you from crying while slicing onions

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL pyranine, the fluorescent used in yellow highlighters, has also been used in hair dyes

    zenodo.org /records/3959386
  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    A rambling statement on posting health information here